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title: I approached the Princess Ilse with the guilt of falsehood on my sou… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: I approached the Princess Ilse with the guilt of falsehood on my soul, and she transformed me into the fir against which you are leaning. Who acts: I, Ilse, you. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 40

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I approached the Princess Ilse with the guilt of falsehood on my soul, and she transformed me into the fir against which you are leaning.

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**Who acts:** I, Ilse, you · **What happens:** approach, transform, lean · **To what, where:** Princess Ilse, me, fir

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ilse, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:12:41
# text = I approached the Princess Ilse with the guilt of falsehood on my soul, and she transformed me into the fir against which you are leaning.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ilse	Ilse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | I | the Princess Ilse |  |  |  | with the guilt of falsehood on my soul | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ilse=Theme with guilt=Instrument |
| 2 | **transform** | past | Ilse | me |  |  |  | into the fir *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into fir=Result |
| 3 | **lean** | present · progressive | you |  |  | the fir |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against which=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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